{"id":413,"date":"2018-12-05T20:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/?p=413"},"modified":"2020-07-14T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:46:39","slug":"the-evolution-of-snow-bedforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/the-evolution-of-snow-bedforms\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of snow bedforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow bedforms &#8211; such as dunes, ripples, and anvil-shaped sastrugi &#8211; cover as much as 11% of the surface of the Earth, but their formation is barely understood.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three winters, I&#8217;ve documented the evolution of snow bedforms in the Colorado Front Range using time-lapse videos, and produced 1000 hours of the first footage of snow bedform growth and evolution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ApHS6CFFx6o3UUSE8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-381 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sastrugi2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo gallery : snow bedforms\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos from the field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/av.tib.eu\/media\/38612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-388 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tl-finalimage-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Videos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How do snow bedforms evolve?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We are now preparing examples, documenting the movement of several types of bedforms, for publication. 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